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Standing Bold and Red Slippers

 I am musing about.... 

 Standing Bold and Red Slippers


As Christians in today's culture, we find ourselves facing disturbing challenges.

As society promotes a "Be Kind" campaign, it seems that it creates a space where Truth is sometimes ignored under the guise that feigning ignorance is "being kind".

Tolerance and acceptance are the code for getting along, for being a part of this more gentle yet more shallow societal time.

A time gently rocking us into deception.

No longer do we feel comfortable verbalizing our own opinions or contradicting others when they go against the norm.

We are left to feel that since we are not walking in someone else's shoes, we have no right to have an opinion on what shoes they wear.

But what if no one had pointed out to Dorothy that her red slippers could get her home?

What if she had traded them in for a new pair at the Mall of Oz because no one had informed her that the red ones she discarded were her ticket to her soul's desire? She just needed to learn how to activate them!

So as Christians we need to talk about this. We need to encourage one another. We need to glean strength daily from the Truth of God's Word. 

There will be times when we will need to take a stand. Likely an unpopular one. The Bible states that we will be hated for Christ's sake. Persecution is a viable possibility in our life time.

But if we truly cared for the Dorothys around us, we will be willing to take a stand for Truth. We will be okay with being different and likely misunderstood. We need to be willing to be hated as we live for Him who IS LOVE! As we share love in both word and deed.

To keep Truth to ourselves is to not love those we are keeping it from. To not love them authentically. To not "be kind".

So, please Lord,  help us to love and to stand bold in Truth for those Dorothys in our lives. Maybe it is someone we know well and personally. Maybe it is someone in a class with us, that we Zoom with, sit on a board with or next to in church, or on a bus. When those opportunities come up to espouse Truth and not go along with the culture's deception, those are the times we help kindly point out the red slippers that just might send Dorothy home.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; Romans 1:16

                                    



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  1. PhilFebruary 7, 2021 at 5:03 PM

    Such a neat metaphor! Trading truth, or the way home for your eternal soul, for anything else than what the Bible says, leads only to tremendous loss. Thanks for sharing, Kathy!

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